Best Card for Arena

[furballdn]

We can all speculate on what is the best card for arena, but would anyone (or the entire community) be willing to do some stats? I would but I don't know how Just, next time you go to the arena, record what cards the #1 deck in each area is. Are there certain cards that are powerful in every league or do some leagues value some cards more than others?

What cards do you think are the best for arena?

[Naesala]

Aether cards (pillar, pendulum, thunderbolt, dragon, few others), grabboid, and dark cards (dragon, pillar/pendulum, devourer) are best in the low level leagues.

Nova, GotP, devourers seem to be best for upper leagues.

[neuroleptics]

All shards.
Shards are seen in almost every deck in the arena from silver onwards

[Leodip]

Black Hole is "loved" from Arena Deck Builders. That+Dexterity is a kill for most Arena Farmers.

[bripod]

All shards.
Shards are seen in almost every deck in the arena from silver onwards

Shards can't be won from the fat man...

[Opsinis]

Golden Nymph.

It's a gem. Makes Ghostmare a...  Nightmare.
And even a time rush with crazy control.

[nerd1]

for gold leage, wind pillar/tower, wyrm, the dragon, owls eye, or the shield.
Frankly, I'm getting really annoyed at all of the SoFree decks.

[ColorlessGreen]

for gold leage, wind pillar/tower, wyrm, the dragon, owls eye, or the shield.
Frankly, I'm getting really annoyed at all of the SoFree decks.

This is certainly consistent with my current observations about the top ranks of the upper leagues.

[Higurashi]

Well, I have some screenshots lying around... I've uploaded them just for you. Took a pretty long time. http://imgur.com/a/GzJ6e

I have a lot typed up about what works best in Silver and Plat in detail, but posting that would only serve to make decks stale. I'll be vague and just list some cards that frequently get first even if the builds aren't optimal.

For Silver: Nova, Graboid, Forest Spirit, Lycan, BB, Lightning, Phase Dragon, Psion, Immortal, Dims, UG, Immo, Photon, Crimson Dragon, LG, GotP, RT, Nightmare, pends and pillars of most of the elements I've listed, QP.

For Plat: BH, SoFo, Discord, Damsel, Elite Wyrm, AW, Longbow, Sky Dragon, FFQ, Fire Lance, Explosion, Steal, GotP, RT, Nightmare, Nova, Physalia, Flesh Recluse, Elite Mummy, Snova, QT, Forest Spectre, Werewolf, Elite Charger, Lava Destroyer, Seraph, Minor Phoenix, Gnome Gemrider, Ruby Dragon, Cremation. To a lesser extent, other Gravity, Fire, Air, Death and Entropy cards (useless ones not included) and their towers/pends. Less useful cards are not as detrimental here as in Silver. Fractal has tons of potential, but few know how the AI works. Have seen some #1 decks with it though.

[majofa]

For Platinum: (in order)

Anything you can play with Shard of Freedom (especially Air cards)

Anything you can use in a Water/Death or Water/Earth duo.

Anything you can use in a Discord/BH variant.

Any Ghostmare card.

Any Darkness card.

Any Fire Card.

[CuCN]

Well, I have some screenshots lying around... I've uploaded them just for you. Took a pretty long time. http://imgur.com/a/GzJ6e

Looks like a lot of Drain Life as plat#1. (The single time I got #1 it was also with Drain Life )

[dragonsdemesne]

Well, I normally do a lot of silly decks in the arena, but cards I can remember having top ten decks with were:

Chrysaora
Purple nymph (twice I think)
Amber nymph
Discord
Black Hole
Earth Pendulum
Phase Dragon
Silence
Immolation
Lava Golem

I've probably done it with quantum tower or supernova as well, but those aren't very memorable, being so general purpose.  There were probably others as well, but those ones were the most memorable, either because of sheer power (ex: chrysaora, black hole, discord, immolation) or because of a silly creative deck I managed to come up with that did better than expected. (ex: earth pend, phase dragon, silence)

A lot of darkness cards would be very successful, as monodark with 12 pests beats a lot of common arena farmers.  Black Hole or discord does as well.  Anything you can base a sosa poison deck around does pretty darned good, too.  Fire decks used to be stronger before, but with the rise of sosa farmers they aren't as good anymore, though they're still decent.  A lot of people succeed with ghostmare, as well.  Monoair SoFr decks do well against most farmers, though poison dials destroys it every time.  (I've seen a few monoairs lately that splash a couple water pends and purifies just for that :p  They're mean, lol)